Le Grand Macabre - György Ligeti; Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Le Grand Macabre

Album by György Ligeti; Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Released 1999

Tracklist

CD 1
1
Le Grand Macabre: Car Horn Prelude
György Ligeti
0:55
2
Le Grand Macabre: Scene I. "Dies irae" (Piet, Amanda, Amando, Nekrotzar)
György Ligeti
6:23
3
Le Grand Macabre: Scene I. "Away, you swagpot!" (Nekrotzar, Piet)
György Ligeti
2:26
4
Le Grand Macabre: Scene I. "Shut up!" (Nekrotzar, Piet, Chorus)
György Ligeti
4:14
5
Le Grand Macabre: Scene I. "Oh..! - Amanda! Can do no more!" (Amanda, Amando, Piet)
György Ligeti
0:42
6
Le Grand Macabre: Scene I. "Ha-ha-ha-ha! Hey! Give me my requisites" (Nekrotzar, Piet, Chorus)
György Ligeti
3:04
7
Le Grand Macabre: Scene I. "Melting snow is thy breast" (Amando, Amanda)
György Ligeti
2:36
8
Le Grand Macabre: Second Car Horn Prelude
György Ligeti
0:41
9
Le Grand Macabre: Scene II. "One! Two! Three! Five!" (Mescalina, Astradamors)
György Ligeti
7:54
10
Le Grand Macabre: Scene II. "Shapely and attractive figure" (Mescalina, Astradamors)
György Ligeti
3:20
11
Le Grand Macabre: Scene II. "Venus! Venus!" (Mescalina, Astradamors)
György Ligeti
1:33
12
Le Grand Macabre: Scene II. "Stop! - Sh!.. Quiet, for heaven's sake!" (Astradamors, Nekrotzar, Piet, Mescalina, Venus, Chorus)
György Ligeti
3:31
13
Le Grand Macabre: Scene II. "Who's there? A man? - A man!" (Mescalina, Nekrotzar, Venus, Piet, Astradamors)
György Ligeti
2:24
14
Le Grand Macabre: Scene II. Finale: "Fire and death I bring" (Nekrotzar, Piet, Astradamors)
György Ligeti
3:28
CD 2
1
Le Grand Macabre: Doorbell Prelude
György Ligeti
0:54
2
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Arse-licker, arse-kisser!" (White Minister, Black Minister, Prince Go-Go)
György Ligeti
3:35
3
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Posture exercises!" (Black Minister, White Minister, Prince Go-Go)
György Ligeti
2:28
4
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Tsk... - Psssst! - Ha! Head of my secret service!" (Chorus, Gepopo, Prince Go-Go, White Minister, Black Minister)
György Ligeti
6:22
5
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Ahh!.. Secret cypher!" (Gepopo, Prince Go-Go, White Minister, Black Minister)
György Ligeti
5:37
6
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Hurray, hurray! My wife is dead" (Astradamors, Prince Go-Go, Chorus)
György Ligeti
2:00
7
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. Nekrotzar's Entrance
György Ligeti
3:19
8
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Woe! Ooh! - For the day of wrath" (Nekrotzar, Astradamors, Chorus)
György Ligeti
3:17
9
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "There's no need to fear" (Astradamors, Piet, Nektrotzar)
György Ligeti
3:03
10
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Up! - Drink! - Up!" (Nekrotzar, Piet, Astradamors)
György Ligeti
1:28
11
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. Galimatius: "Hmm! It's delicious!" (Nekrotzar, Piet, Astradamors, Prince Go-Go)
György Ligeti
4:46
12
Le Grand Macabre: Scene III. "Where am I? What time is it?" (Nekrotzar, Piet, Prince Go-Go, Astradamors, Chorus)
György Ligeti
5:47
13
Le Grand Macabre: Interlude
György Ligeti
1:34
14
Le Grand Macabre: Scene IV. "Ghost Astradamors, are you dead?" (Piet, Astradamors, Prince Go-Go, Ruffiack, Schobiack, Schabernack, Nektrotzar, Mescalina, White Minister, Black Minister)
György Ligeti
3:39
15
Le Grand Macabre: Scene IV. Mirror Canon: Nekrotzar's Death
György Ligeti
6:17
16
Le Grand Macabre: Scene IV. Finale. Passacaglia: "Ah, it was good" (Amando, Amando, all without Nekrotzar)
György Ligeti
5:07